---
title: "hMailServer 6.2.0: the new Control Panel desktop administration app"
url: https://www.hmailserver.co.uk/topic/28209/hmailserver-6.2.0-the-new-control-panel-desktop-administration-app
author: "Progressiverobot"
published: 2026-06-14T05:59:56.000Z
updated: 2026-06-14T05:59:56.000Z
category: "Announcements & releases"
tags: ["release","control-panel","windows","api"]
site: hMailServer Community Forum
---

# hMailServer 6.2.0: the new Control Panel desktop administration app

hMailServer 6.2.0 introduces the hMailServer Control Panel, a new desktop administration application shipped alongside the full 6.x server. The .NET 8 Desktop Runtime is bundled and installed automatically when it is missing, so there are no separate downloads.

**The Control Panel**

A .NET 8 WPF application with Fluent/Windows 11 design (Mica window), light and dark themes, animated live charts, and the familiar navigation tree from the classic Administrator: Welcome, Status, Domains, Rules, Settings > Advanced, Utilities.

- Animated dashboard with KPI cards plus live delivery-throughput and session charts.
- Domains and accounts, with an account editor for quota, password, forwarding and vacation, plus aliases and distribution lists with member management.
- Delivery queue with Deliver now and Remove, plus live log streaming.
- Rules with a graphical IF/THEN editor covering criteria and actions.
- Settings: Protocols, Delivery, Routes, Anti-spam (SPF/DKIM/DMARC/greylisting/SpamAssassin), Anti-virus, Logging.
- Advanced: Auto-ban and SSL/TLS, Performance and scripting, SSL certificates, TCP/IP ports, IP ranges with a permission editor, Incoming relays, and DANE/DNSSEC, MTA-STS, ARC, TLS-RPT, ACME, REST API, web services and metrics.
- Utilities: Backup and restore, MX query, Server sendout, Diagnostics.
- Ctrl+K command palette, guaranteed text contrast, consistent spacing.

The classic Administrator remains included. So does the Web Control Deck, the browser admin served at the REST listener root.

**Quality**

Server core 6.2.0 build 6 was validated by the full regression suite: 898/898 tests passing, zero failures, on a MariaDB backend with live SpamAssassin and ClamAV and TLS 1.2/1.3 end to end.

[Full release notes, checksums and signatures](https://www.progressiverobot.com/hmailserver-downloads/)